Category: Sermons
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Respecting Shepherds
1 Thessalonians 5:12-13 If there is no peace between the congregation and the pastor, the church won’t be healthy. Paul addresses this essential relationship by spelling out the work of pastors and appealing to that work as the warrant and basis for congregational respect. Two significant things are required of a congregation to maintain peaceful…
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Hope In Help
Psalm 119:169-176 This grand psalm begins in verse 1 proclaiming divine approbation upon the one who walks in the way of the Lord and concludes in verse 176 with the psalmists confession that he is straying spiritually like a lost sheep. Throwing himself upon the mercy of God, he cries out to the Lord to…
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Called to Teach
Psalm 78:1-8 Each generation stands before the awesome duty to retrieve the lessons of the past in order to promote them today so that they will be perpetuated into the future. The psalmist embraces this challenge as he opens with a call to listen and then unfolds a history lesson for the current generation with…
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Congregational Life
1 Thessalonians 5:14-15 Hardly any other passage of Scripture provides such nitty-gritty instruction about how to live together in Christ’s church than this one. Paul prescribes specific duties for specific infirmities: admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, and help the weak. The overall force of Paul’s instruction indicates that sin does not resolve over time…
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Ebenezer
1 Samuel 7:12 After a season intense political, religious, and social unrest, Samuel set up a stone to memorialize the Lord’s deliverance of Israel from their Philistine overlords. The purpose of this stone was to teach the people of God to march forward in hope knowing the Lord’s help in the past. This message explores…